Sanell Aggenbach is a full-time artist based in Woodstock, Cape Town. Her work primarily deals with the intersection of history and private narratives by considering the process of recall and interpretation.

Since 2003 Aggenbach has focused mainly on subverted feminine tropes and feminist themes in her work. In a recent solo exhibition, Bend to Her Will, she subtly and mischievously reframed the hobbyist art of flower arranging by appropriating the traditionally masculine art of Japanese Ikebana.

Her sculptural works, primarily in bronze, parody Western masterpieces from Michelangelo, Henry Moore, and Warhol to Pierneef, taking a refreshing look at these pivotal references from a woman’s perspective. She was selected for ...